Слово англійською: hook

Іменник

Переклад hook українською: крючо́к, гачо́к (для риболо́влі), крюк, гак (для куртки і т. д.)

noun

/hʊk/

a curved piece of metal, plastic or wire for hanging things on, catching fish with, etc.
- a picture/curtain/coat hook
- a fish hook
- Hang your towel on the hook.
- The key was hanging from a hook.
- Your coat’s hanging on a hook behind the door.
see also boathook, fish hook
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bait
bite
dragnet
fishing
fly
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line
net
rod
trawl
(in boxing) a short hard hit that is made with the elbow bent
- a left hook to the jaw
(in cricket and golf) a way of hitting the ball so that it curves to the side instead of going straight ahead (usually by mistake in golf, but deliberately in cricket)
a thing that is used to make people interested in something
- The images are used as a hook to get children interested in science.
- Well-chosen quotations can serve as a hook to catch the reader’s interest.

Word OriginOld English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’.

Idioms

by hook or by crook

hook, line and sinker

completely
- What I said was not true, but he fell for it (= believed it) hook, line and sinker.

off the hook

having got free from a difficult situation or a punishment
- I lied to get him off the hook.
- No way will she let you off the hook this time.
- I was finally off the hook.
(becoming old-fashioned) if you leave or take a landline phone off the hook, you take the receiver (= the part that you pick up) off the place where it usually rests, so that nobody can call you

on the hook for something

(North American English, informal) responsible for paying for something
- Citizens are increasingly on the hook for more of their own medical costs.

ring off the hook

(usually used in the progressive tenses) (of a phone) to ring many times, with one phone call after another
- The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.

sling your hook